Maya Angelou Quotes
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
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Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.
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I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
